Xmas pressie to myself..CTEK Multi XS7000 Battery Charger

[minke]

I read all the bump & decided to treat myself to an, CTEK Multi XS7000 Battery Charger.

If it does what is says on the tin, then it seems like I will only ever need 1 battery for the rest of my life (jokin of course), although I'm interested if anyone else is using one & what their comments are on the performance.

CTEK state that this machine can re-vitalise an old duff battery...can anyone support this claim.

Cheers & Merry Xmas

kev

[Paul R]

Hi,

I got one about 6 months ago and went round charging everything I could we had about 5 'duff' batteries from our cars (type 054) and it brought them back to life so they would hold charge. I've not actively used one of them to see how well they are now though. Two other batteries were completely dead though and threw up a warning.

One leisure battery (Big Cat 110) took hours to charge and I think it's completely dead as the plates got very hot and the fluid leaded all over my garage bench which took some explaining to the missus. According to the manual it is supposed to bring up a warning if it has been on charge (without getting to a full charge) after a certain number of hours but this didn't. Maybe I had it on the wrong voltage or mode though.

I was also going to use mine in the van as a regulated supply and swap modes to a trickle charger when needed.

Cheers,

Paul

[minke]

Mmmmm Interesting paul,

Think I might take care trying to restore old batts, as I was planning on doing that. Then I was gonna set it up in my boat to keep the batteries topped up.

Seems like we have to very carefully read the settings or pay the price eh!.

Thanks again,

Cheers Kev..

[CovKid]

No you can't actually dispense with a regular (blind) charger as sometimes you need one to get enough charge into some batteries for the CTEK to take over. Thats been my experience. Plus if you're unfortunate enough to get a totally flat battery on a cold morning, the CTEK could take a very long time indeed.

[johny342]

ive had mine a few months now and im happy with it! keeps both my batterys topped up and i test them every three weeks on a durite tester and they test very good. not used it on a duff battery yet tho!

[Paul R]

No you can't actually dispense with a regular (blind) charger as sometimes you need one to get enough charge into some batteries for the CTEK to take over. Thats been my experience. Plus if you're unfortunate enough to get a totally flat battery on a cold morning, the CTEK could take a very long time indeed.

True, I've used the boost voltage setting on that CTEK model before though to try and give one particular battery a kick so that it would hold charge when the other modes gave up on it. I think the reasoning is that the higher voltage might 'burn' off some deposits on the plates that might stop a normal voltage charger doing something. If in doubt try anything I guess (as long as you don't end up blowing something up .... or get a good video of it if you do).

Seems like we have to very carefully read the settings or pay the price eh!.

I need to read the destructions again to make sure I didn't imagine the cut-off good luck